Alchemy & Paracelsus Medicine

first published in the German
magazine esotera 12/2001
(side 20-23)

Deutsch

An old medicine rediscovered -
"The drinking-gold of the alchemists"

Far back in the Middle Ages, Paracelsus praised
its medical powers. Today “aurum potabile”, the alchemists’ cure-all,
has again become word of mouth, so to speak. That’s because
after many centuries, by keeping to the instructions in ancient
texts, it has again become possible to produce it. Meanwhile, holistic
doctors have used the medicine – with great success

By Ulrich Arndt

At
first, Reiner Moll, head of the “Privatinstitut für
Naturheilweisen Arkanum“ (Private Institute for Naturopathy)
in Neusäß near Augsburg in Bavaria, was skeptical:
A cure- all? Meanwhile, after almost one year of practical application,
he has experienced treatment successes he can’t explain: “All
kinds of chronic disease, states of pain, and skin diseases can
be alleviated or even completely cured.” For instance,
the rashes of a 32-year-old man from which he had suffered for
five years vanished within a fortnight after rubbing them with
the gold medicine. Another patient who was restling with the
consequences of burns she had incurred fifteen years ago also
recovered after two weeks. A 48-year-old aviation engineer who
suffered from severe chronic bronchitis and could hardly speak
any more was free from pain after one week and was able to talk
normally again. “On the whole, patients feel vitalized,
their organism regenerates, their mind becomes more stable”,
Moll sums it up.

Medieval
medicine
“Aurum potabile”, the drinking-gold of the alchemists,
is a medieval medicine which was praised enthusiastically back
then.
The instructions for its preparation have been lost, though; only
fragmentary allusions and descriptions in symbolic code have remained.
For instance, the famous medieval German physician and alchemist
Paracelsus (1493-1541) raved: „Of all Elixirs, Gold is supreme
and the most important for us, for it can keep the body indestructible.
Drinkable gold will cure all illnesses, it renews and restores.“"

Purification of “juices”
In his writings, Paracelsus alleged to have cured the most diverse chronic illnesses
and many hopeless cases. He also said he had taken it as a prophylactic measure
and so protected himself against infections like the Plague. Furthermore, it
was possible to detoxicate and purge the whole system with it: Over the course
of everal months its ingestion would thoroughly cleanse all “juices”,
regenerating the blood, the cells, and thus the whole organism, the traditional
reports allege.
Nowadays there are homeopathic gold medicines that contain gold information,
and there are preparations from gold colloids containing very small gold molecules.
In addition, medical research has shown that even small amounts of gold we sometimes
ingest with our food can influence the body’s metabolism and nervous system
positively.

The sunlike power of gold
According to alchemistic concepts gold possesses strong sunlike powers. Therefore,
in man, it strengthens the “sun force”, will impart greater vitality
and a “sunny frame of mind”. The alchemist Isaacus Hollandus wrote
in the 15th century: “Firstly, this Aurum Potabile is an excellent treasure
and arcanum safeguarding the body from many illnesses, as it strengthens the
heart and the spirits...”
According to recent therapeutic experience at the “Privatinstitut für
Naturheilweisen” drinking-gold can be employed:
• as an emergency cure for abdominal pain, headaches, motion sickness,
numbness after local anesthesia at the dentist’s, toothaches after dental
treatment. Children respond especially quickly;
• Against depression, feelings of inner unrest and strife, anxiety states;
generally in order to cheer a patient up and strengthen his/her confidence;
• as a supporting therapy to assist other treatment;
• against all kinds of pain, skin diseases, chronic illnesses, wounds that
won’t heal, and other ailments.

For
centuries, alchemistic knowledge has been passed on only orally

Still, the effects of drinkable gold described by Paracelsus and
others go far beyond that. Their knowledge about the preparation
was lost, though, nd by the 19th century, at the latest, their
reports were regarded as boundless exaggerations by medieval
quacks or just plain charlatanism, although even today Paracelsus
counts as the founding father of modern medicine. But the knowledge
about an extraordinary medicine made from gold lived on in popular
belief, and even today there are supposed “healing liquors” like “Danziger
Goldwasser” (Danzig Gold Water) in which tiny gold particles
are floating.

Secret solvent
Only recently, at the turn of the millennium in the summer of 2000, it became
possible to decipher the coded medieval laboratory manuals. According to those
a process over several months is needed in which the metallic gold is completely
dissolved. Judged by modern chemical standards, this is only possible with
the strongest acids. But centuries ago, alchemists had found a much simpler
natural way through which it is also possible by means of a weak organic solvent – by
means of the so-called “philosophical mercury”. What this actually
means is kept strictly secret by the modern manufacturers, though. They will
only say that the metal is actually dissolved. About 130 grams are needed to
produce one litre of concentrated alchemistic Gold Essence. After the dissolution,
over the course of several weeks, the liquid is being distilled, purified and
exposed to the light of the sun and the moon as well as to planetary influences
according to certain precise guidelines.

Body, soul and spirit
The result is an alcoholic essence which contains just a few traces
of the metal in an organic compound (as if a plant had metabolized
it). Still, according to
the symbolic alchemistic descriptions, it contains “the gold’s healing
power”, i.e. “spirit, soul and purified material body of the sun
metal” – in modern terms, the healing information of the gold’s
body, soul and spirit.

Modern tests
What’s actually the matter with this mysterious liquid has been investigated
by the LIFE TEST Institute, a neutral institute for biophysical research. In
cooperation with several technical colleges and therapists, chemical analyses
and numerous tests from the field of alternative medicine were conducted, comprising
Kirlian photography, measurements of meridian energy, and biophoton measurements
(“biophotons” is the technical term for the light emitted by the
DNA, the genetic substance, in our cells that regulates our metabolism). The
result: even with external application the “Aurum Potabile” stimulates
life energy, the “Chi” of the acupuncture meridians. People become
more vital, their powers of self-healing are strengthened, and they simply feel
great.
These findings were corroborated by practical experience. At the “Privatinstitut
für Naturheilweisen Arkanum“ in Bavaria, more than 70 patients have
been treated up to now with Aurum Potabile internally or externally – with
remarkable success: To an amazing degree, open wounds, skin diseases, inflammations,
chronic pain states or a tumor in the ear got better only through Aurum Potabile
(see sidebar).

Headaches, belly-aches
These patients had been treated before with current methods of
orthodox medicine
and naturopathy, but didn’t make any substantial progress. “Aurum
Potabile will also greatly alleviate everyday ailments like headaches, belly-aches,
indisposition or motion sickness”, “Arkanum” director Reiner
Moll reports.
As a supporting therapy to other orthodox or naturopathy treatment, Aurum Potabile
will speed up recovery and reduce the occurrence of negative side effects.It
detoxifies the organism, stabilizes mentally and strengthens the personality. “I
don’t know anything”, Moll says, “which would so thoroughly
stabilize a person’s body and mind with all kinds of different conditions.
It’s like a kind of catalyst for recovery – similar to a very precise
homeopathic remedy. That painful search for the individually suitable remedy
which often takes weeks is completely unnecessary, though.”

Universal healing power
Judging from Moll’s experience, Aurum Potabile actually does
develop universal healing power, just as Paracelsus and others
described it. Still, that doesn’t make it a miracle cure.
Like many other natural remedies, it develops its most intense
effects only when patients assist their own recovery by changing
unwholesome life-styles. In addition, one should drink at least
two litres a day of spring water or uncarbonated water low in minerals
and eat healthy food as much as possible in order to assist the
washing-out of wastes and toxins induced by the drinking-gold.
Nevertheless it is unclear how the drinking-gold can actually bring about such
profound harmonization. According to the alchemistic teachings the Aurum Potabile
is supposed to stimulate three of the seven principal human energy centres: the
root, heart and crown chakras (chakras are known in Alchemy as “seals” or “gates
of the planets”). They are regarded as the principal energetic control
centres..

Development of consciousness
Moreover, drinking-gold is said to cure by supplying “light energy”,
by strengthening the natural order of body, spirit and soul and by stimulating
awareness of deeper causes of disease. In alchemy, this process does not end
with mere “repair” of an organism. Just like drinking-gold with its
light energy drives away the darkness of disease in the body, it could “lighten” the
whole personality – in modern words: it assists the development of one’s
personality and awareness.

Lead turns into gold
Alchemists preserved the knowledge about such profound transformations
in human beings in the form of symbolic images: as a transformation
of “black lead” into “light
gold”, which equals the legendary “Great Work”. Aurum Potabile
was regarded as the most important tool in that process. Of course, there is
no recent information about these spiritual effects. Only the positive influence
upon the human body, mind and energy system have been documented up to now – but
they are amazing enough.